At 7:30am, they had been on the road for half an hour. Jonny had noticed that Jac was becoming more and more uncomfortable. He could tell because she was fidgeting and she kept on rubbing her bump with her hands.
"Dixie." Jonny shouted over the noise of the hyperactive medical professionals. "Can you pull over at the next services? I need to take a leak." He lied.
"Yep sure." Dixie replied. Jonny didn't know what he was more worried about; how Jac was feeling or the possibility of her throwing up on him. Jac knew he was asking to pull over for her and to be honest, she was grateful.

Five minutes later, Dixie had just pulled up in the car park at the motorway services. Sam jumped out of the coach into the freezing, dreary air and opened the door.
"Come on, I won't say anything." Jonny said as he undone Jac's seatbelt for her. Mo had already gotten out to stretch her legs so Jonny stood up and helped Jac stand up. She followed Jonny off of the coach and Michael got off to go to the toilet too.

"Maconie, you coming?" Michael asked as he headed for the building.
"Um..." Jonny muttered as he looked at Jac.
"Go on, but don't say anything." Jac said quietly. Jonny quickly rubbed Jac's arm before he quickly caught up with Michael.

Meanwhile, fletch and Dixie got out because it was quite tight with the four fully grown adults sitting in the front.
"How's Natalie?" Dixie asked as she leant against the coach.
"I don't mean to be rude, but I came away on this to get away from her so..."
"It's alright, I get it. Looks like we've got brilliant weather." Dixie joked as she looked up at the grey clouds.
"I bet you a tenner there's thunder and lightening tonight." Dixie said as she held her hand out.
"You're on." Fletch agreed as he shook her hand.

Minutes later, Michael and Jonny both returned and Jac was leaning against the coach. Mo was standing near Jac, texting on her phone. And Sam and Tom were talking next to them.
"Maureen, I do believe that mobile phones are only allowed in the case of an emergency." Jonny stated as he approached her and Jac. This caused Sam, who raised an eyebrow, and Tom to turn around and face them.

"Shut up Maconie." Mo snapped as she continued tapping away on her phone.
"I take it auntie flo's visiting." Jonny joked. Mo rolled her eyes and carried on texting. "Ah, I know that look, you are on aren't you!" Jonny laughed. Mo huffed which Jonny knew meant she was getting pissed off with him.

"She's not the only one on the blob then." Tom whispered to Sam who playfully elbowed him in the ribs.
"How did you know?" Sam asked curiously.
"I just can. You're acting differently." Tom whispered.
"How?"
"You're just... Quieter I suppose. And I saw you taking ibuprofen this morning. And you're a little bit moodier than usual." Tom added quietly.
"Shut up." Sam muttered as she smiled at him, he knew her so well.

"Right, come on back on the coach." Tom ordered to change the subject. Jac took a final deep breath of fresh air before she got back on the coach.
"Who you texting?" Jonny asked as he and Mo got back onto the coach. Once they were all on, Tom shut the door, Dixie got in the driver's seat and began driving again.
"None of your business." Mo said. Suddenly, she received another text but before she could read it, Jonny snatched her phone off of her.

"Derwood Thompson. I knew it." Jonny said as he smirked and handed back the phone to an infuriated Mo. Seeing the anger in her eyes, Jonny looked away from Mo and back at the mother of his unborn child.

She had gained a little colour to her face which was a good sign.
"You feeling better?" Jonny whispered.
"A bit." Jac muttered. Jonny reached into his pocket and got out a packet of chewing gum.
"Here. Chewing's meant to relieve nausea for travel sickness." Jonny stated as he handed Jac one. Reluctantly, Jac unwrapped it and put the stick of chewing gum in her mouth just as Jonny did. Jonny put the pack back in his pocket and rested his head on the back of the chair, waiting for the journey to soon be over.

Once the four were on the coach in the front seats, Sam and Tom began kissing passionately. As a joke, fletch beeped the horn which made the pair jump and pull apart.
"Dixie!" Tom shrieked.
"It was fletch!" Dixie protested.
"You're the one whose driving." Sam stated.
"Yeah and you two were the ones snogging." Fletch stated.
"It was you wasn't it?" Sam stated rather than asked, she and fletch gave each other evils and luckily, Tom was sitting in the middle to prevent any play fighting.
"We've got a child in the back so none of that." Fletch whispered to Sam as he leaned forward to see Sam past Tom.
"We have not got a child in the back." Sam stated quietly.
"What so you're saying that red head isn't pregnant? Has she got a tumour?" Fletch asked worriedly.
"No she is pregnant, I just don't think a six month old fetus counts a child." Sam snapped.

"No but I've got three kids in the front with me." Dixie stated as she tried to focus on driving.
"Im not a kid! I'm not even involved in this!" Tom protested.
"No but you two were snogging like teenagers so all three of you cut it out." Dixie ordered. Fletch put his hands up as he surrendered and he zipped his lips together. Tom silently slipped his hand around Sam's waist which didn't go unnoticed by Fletch but he decided not to tell Dixie for fear of being shouted at.

"Looks like your not the only one having the painters in." Tom joked quietly to Sam. Sam wondered if he was just trying to see how many slang phrases for period he could fit in, in one day.
"I heard that Thomas." Dixie stated.
"You're in trouble." Fletch teased.
"You will be too because if you don't shut up, I'll tell Natalie why you really came on this trip." Dixie threatened. Fletch did not want his wife knowing that he came to get away from her so he was immediately silent.

8:15am
The fourteen doctors and nurses had arrived at the site and were unpacking their things from storage. Jonny took Jac's bag and put it on one of the seats for easy access later so it wasn't in the way whilst other people were getting their bags out.

Because Jac wasn't carrying her bag, they had put all the heavy things in her bag and that included both sleeping bags so Jonny's hiking bag was quite light compared to other people's bag.

All twelve candidates were standing in a semi circle facing towards Sam and Tom with their hiking bags on their backs. Jonny noticed that Jac had her light day bag on one shoulder so he walked up to her and lifted her bag up. He put both shoulder straps on and done up the hip strap so that it was loosely around the top of her bump.
"Really?" Jac moaned.
"It'll stop you from getting a bad back." Jonny stated.

Dixie and Fletch were standing, leaning against the side of the coach.
"Have you seen the amount of alcohol under there?" Fletch joked. He had seen the crates of beer and bottles of vodka and coke when they all got their bags out from the storage underneath the seats.
"Yeah. You think Sam and Tom know?" Dixie replied.
"Probably not. But I don't think they'll care as long as they get a few beers." Fletch joked.

"Right, Sam is going to pick names out of the hat. The first 6 names are team one, the remaining six names are going to be team two." Tom explained as he held an upside down had filled with a few bits of creased paper. Tom hadn't forgotten the agreement; that Jonny wanted to ensure he was in the same group as Jac.

Sam pulled out a name. "Okay, the first name out is the team leader and they'll be in charge of the map and navigation." Tom added.
"The leader of team one, is... Michael." Sam announced after reading the piece of paper.
"Yesss." Michael said as he punch his fist in the air, although he didn't know the other five members of his team yet. He could easily read a map and navigate.
"Right, in Michael's team, is... Jac... Sacha... Mo... Jonny and... Zorsia." Sam said after pulling out five bits of paper. Luckily, no rigging was needed because Jac and Jonny's name had both come out.

Everyone seemed happy about their team except for Zorsia of course because the only person on the trip that she could speak to was Arthur. Though at least she wasn't on the team with the oaf that was Elliot Hopeless, Zorsia thought.

"That leaves the rest of you but we just need to take out one final name to see who's going to be team leader." Tom stated. Everyone stood in the two groups. The second group consisted of Elliot, Edward, Mary Claire, Harry, Gemma and Arthur.

"Team two's leader is... Mary Claire." Sam announced.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me! I can't read a map to save my own life." Mary Claire protested.
"Is abdication allowed?" Harry asked cheekily.
"Nope. It's all about team work. Not delegation." Tom added as he looked at Mary Claire.

"Right, here are your maps." Tom said as he gave Michael and Mary Claire a map, pen and compass each. "We're going to give you coordinates for each checkpoint and you can choose a route to get there. You need to decide as a team whether you'd rather go for quicker, even though it might mean going up steep hills or crossing rivers. Or you might prefer a smoother, but longer route. You've got to take into account whose on your teams and what everyone's ability is." Tom explained.

"Right, we're going to give you both, the same four checkpoints. But to make sure you don't follow each other, we're going to give you an additional check point which is different and it's the first one you have to go to. At your additional check point is an item which you must take to checkpoint two, where we will be to check you off." Sam explained.

"Any questions?" Tom queried.
"How many per tent?" Mo asked.
"Ah well because it was short notice, there wasn't a lot of choice but we've got a two man tent which I think is reserved." Tom said as he nodded towards Jonny and Jac. "But we've got another six man tent and a four man tent." Tom added. There were actually three , two Man tents but the other one was for him and Sam and the other was for Fletch and Dixie.

"Right, any other questions? Nope. Okay then, Sam you go with group one and I'll go with group two." Tom said as he headed to group two to give them the coordinates.

Mary Claire spread the map out offer a tree stump.
"Right, at the moment, were are in 234, 217." Tom stated.
"What the hell is that?" Mary Claire snapped.
"It's a grid reference." Gemma stated.
"Well can a have a grid reference in English please?" She asked. Tom rolled his eyes; he was sure if Mary Claire was their leader they were going to get lost.

Meanwhile.
"Right. We're in grid square 23, 21 and we're in the car park." Sam stated. Michael quickly located the area and put a cross over the blue P. "Your first stop which is different to theirs, is 259, 194." Sam explained and Michael quickly made an additional X.

Five minutes later, Sam left them to plan their route after Michael had correctly plotted their 5 check points and their final point, the camp site.
"Actually Sam?" Michael said. She quickly turned on her heel of her hiking boot and walked up to Michael. "I just wanted to ask, how many miles are we doing today?"

"Well it all depends on your route. The shortest is 8 miles, but the longest could be double that or even more." Sam stated.
"Any hints for the short course? I mean we have got Naylor." Michael said quietly. Jac was sitting on a bench a few meters away and didn't appear to hear.

"Head through Bocket's farm for the first check point. But you didn't hear it from me." Sam whispered as she headed back to the coach.

By 9am, ten minutes later, Michael and his team were setting off after having their route approved by Sam. It was approximately 10 miles. It could've been shorter but they were avoiding the major hills in the area, mainly for Jac's sake but Michael didn't say that aloud.

It was 9:15am by the time team two left and they were already fed up of Mary Claire's crap geography skills. Tom had to give them a lot of additional help to plot the grid references but after Mary Claire had plotted their route by doing what she called 'dot to dot' they had their route planned which was almost 14 miles.

But both teams were on their way so Dixie, Fletch, Sam and Tom set off to meet the teams at checkpoint two where they should arrive between 10-10:30am.

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